Improvement in tobacco-pipes



MTE STATES ATENT Einen.

E. A. MARSHALL, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOE TO HIMSELE AND THOMAScAETEE, OE SAME PLAGE.

llVlPROVEIVl ENT IN TOBACCO-PllsES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,225, dated September3, 1861; antedated August 10, 1861.

To a/Z'Z whom t may concern/f Be it known lthat I, A. MARSHALL, of NewYork city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Smoking-Pipes and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description Of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pipe withthe Stem drawn out. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same closed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

The Object Of this invention is to furnish .a smoking-pipe with a stemOf the ordinary length constructedin such a manner that it can bereduced, so as to be conveniently carried aboutin the vest OrOtherpocket withoutdanger of being broken or injured 5 and it consists inmaking the stem in sections andfitting them together so as to slide onewithin the other upon the same plan asa telescope.

To enable others skilledl in the art to fully understand and constructmy said invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A is the bowl of the pipe, having a short stem, B, of somewhat largerdiameter than the ordinary stem of a` smoking-pipe.

G is a small straight extension-tube, furnished on one end with a head,a, and fitted so as to slide within the short pipestem B, similar to thesections of a telescope, and the pipe prevented from dropping Off, whenheld in a downward position, by a bushing, b, surrounding theextension-tube, and tting snugly in the end of stem B. A bead, c, isfastened On the outer end of the extension-tube, which prevents it frombeing pushed too far into the pipe-stem, and also furnishes somethingforv the teeth to hold On to.

A common Objection urged against all eX- tensiOn-pipes is that, beingmade in detached pieces to carry them in the pocket, they require to betaken apart and put in a box or case to prevent the stem from being lostor broken, While in a pipe of this kind no such obj ection can beraised, as the pipe itself forms the case for the part most liable to bebroken; at the same time it is reduced to a convenient size forcarryingin the pocket.

The convenience of having the pipe always Y ready for use without havingto stop and iit one portion into the other is an advantage possessed bythis pipe over all others, and this, together with the comparativelysmall cost at which it can be furnished, will recommend it to laborersand soldiers, for whom it is more especially designed.

It is designed, generally, to make these pipes of wood Aand meersohaum,although I do not confine myself to these materials, as it is evidentthat other materials will answer equally

